On Saturday 31 of December 2016 21:50:44 L.S. McCarty wrote:
> Hello to all.>> I'm a long-time TDE user running TDE 14.0.4 amd64 on Debian 9.x Stretch> (unstable, actually Siduction, using systemd). It works well, although I> occasionally run into minor issues that I eventually solve. It is after> all "unstable".>> Over the last few weeks a problem remains, binutils_2.27-9_amd64.deb> works fine, but several updates of this program which can be loaded by> itself, most recently binutils_2.27.90.201612331-1_amd64.deb, all render> the system unbootable.>> The boot cycle proceeds from sda1 without any errors but the tdm signon> comes up with a black background rather the normal blue TDE one. When I> logon I get an error message and TDE does not load, showing a problem> with my home partition on sda5:>> Could not read connection list> /home/lsm1/.DCOPserver_LSM1_0> Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running>> When I hit Enter I then get:>> Could not start tdeinit, Check your installation.>>> This problem is specific to TDE as I can still load the backup desktop> LXQT by the usual logon from the TDE signon box.>> When I boot to the console and downgrade to binutils_2.27-9_amd64.deb> everything works as usual on the reboot.>>> If anyone has any possible solutions I'd be happy to try them out and> report back.
If you want to use TDE on Stretch or Sid it is a good choice to use
Preliminary Stable Builds repository:
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Preliminary_Stable_Builds
For Stretch (binutils 2.27.90.20161220) and Sid (binutils 2.27.90.20161231) is
updated today.
Cheers
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Slávek